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India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is old. It is from 2018 when the police beat up protesters from a different Bharat Bandh.
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India Today Fact Check
The viral video is from 2018 when police beat up protestors from a different Bharat Bandh.
In Short
- Viral video claims UP police beat protesters during Bharat Bandh
- Video allegedly from Meerut shared widely on social media
- India Today Fact Check reveals video is from April 2018
Many Dalit and Adivasi organisations protested the recent Supreme Court verdict on Scheduled Caste reservations and observed a Bharat Bandh on August 21. Amid this, a video allegedly from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut is being shared on social media with claims that the UP police had beaten up the protesters. In the viral clip, a few men can be seen running outside a building that looks like a police station.
Sharing the viral clip on X, one person wrote, “Some glimpses of today's Bharat Bandh in Meerut, UP. Don't mess with UP Police and @myogiadityanath ji.”
India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is old. It is from 2018 when police beat up protestors from a different Bharat Bandh.
OUR PROBE
Reverse searching the keyframes of the viral clip, we found several news reports from 2018, where screenshots from the viral video were used.
According to an April 4, 2018 report in News18, the video was shot at Meerut’s Kanker Khera police station. The report stated that the people running out of the station were miscreants who allegedly caused violence during a Bharat Bandh on April 2, 2018. It is, thus, clear here that the viral video has nothing to do with the strike on August 21, 2024.
According to various media reports from 2018, Dalit organisations observed a Bharat Bandh in the country against changes to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
The strike turned violent in Meerut. We found various news reports that mentioned arson, vandalism, and ruckus by the protestors in the Uttar Pradesh city. Some reports also claimed that people had died during the 2018 strike.
We then contacted AajTak’s Meerut correspondent Usman Chaudhary, who was in Meerut during the said incident in 2018. Chaudhary corroborated that the viral clip was from 2018 and showed Meerut’s Kanker Khera police station.
Chaudhary said that during the Bharat Bandh in 2018, some miscreants vandalised a Shobhapur police check post on the Delhi-Dehradun Highway. The Shobhapur check post falls under the Kanker Khera police station. Following the ruckus, the police detained many protestors and brought them to the station, where they were beaten up.
However, there are also reports of the police beating up protestors during the Bharat Bandh on August 21 in Bihar’s Patna. However, nothing of that sort had been reported for Meerut at the time of writing this.
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